part of what made me gut my phone and make it dumb as hell was i despised feeling like i was being spied on constantly. nowhere felt safe.

alternative is get another phone to put apps on, and have it so i can only use it while i'm connected to wifi. i dunno tho. that's not an elegant solution

@machinesbleedtoo I'd touch neither.

• But unlike #iOS, #Android seems at least "salvageable" ( as @landley said) tho #Google seems to now #tivolize and prevent access to the #SourceCode, as @GrapheneOS had to publicly beg for someone [Android OEM(s)] to give them a current version.

@landley @machinesbleedtoo @GrapheneOS yeah.

I consider the delay/non-public access to be a major dick move and hinderance.

@kkarhan @landley oof :(

i use lineageOS w/o google services, afaik it works fine if i choose to install google services and from a quick look it appears they have settings that *can* limit some of the problematic data flows. but with some apps its impossible, ofc

i wish more apps were developed to work independently of google/apple. but a surprising amount of apps still function w/o google services for me. like duolingo, but i can't do the mic related activities, presumably bc it uses a google service for that for e.g.

@machinesbleedtoo yikes!

I think it's bad that #Google really #enshittifies #Android for no valid reason...